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towns affected by sandy in the last eight days. we've had seven or 10,000 "people" up load videos, photos, real time what is happening. if we partner with local governments, publish real time it would be incredibly powerful. take a step back and say one of the things that's been nice about, this i talk to major cpg companies, major retail companies to help us get this effort together. i heard back from everyone of their ceos or executive leaderships who want to help. one thing out there is huge propensity for corporations to want to help in these situations. government and private corporations coming closer to together to help. melissa: that would be a great lesson, a good positive to come out of this. corporations are in the position to help. it would be great to figure out a way to do it effectively. thanks for coming on, appreciate your time. >> iran's nuclear program rising every day. does it make a difference? some people say no matter who the president is for the next four years it won't make a difference for the economy. are
towns affected by sandy in the last eight days. we've had seven or 10,000 "people" up load videos, photos, real time what is happening. if we partner with local governments, publish real time it would be incredibly powerful. take a step back and say one of the things that's been nice about, this i talk to major cpg companies, major retail companies to help us get this effort together. i heard back from everyone of their ceos or executive leaderships who want to help. one thing out...
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bill: the frustration is boiling over a week after sandy. a million people without power in the east and temperatures are dropping. david lee miller is live in one of the most hardest hit areas, that is brooklyn, new york. what is happening there today? >> reporter: we are talking a great deal now about the election. i can tell you that folks here in the red-hook section of brooklyn aren't worried about voting tomorrow, they are worried about surviving. the storm damage is visible now, the waters have receded, there is very little help on the ground. there are thousands of people in need of help. there are thousands and thousands of people who live in red hook in public housing. the conditions they say after the storm are now deplorable and that's what we saw. we had to climb a stairwell ten flights. there were no emergency lights, there was debris in the stairwell, there was human waste in the stairwell. we were told that a rape had taken place there earlier. we entered the apartment of one of the residents, she was heating her apartment wi
bill: the frustration is boiling over a week after sandy. a million people without power in the east and temperatures are dropping. david lee miller is live in one of the most hardest hit areas, that is brooklyn, new york. what is happening there today? >> reporter: we are talking a great deal now about the election. i can tell you that folks here in the red-hook section of brooklyn aren't worried about voting tomorrow, they are worried about surviving. the storm damage is visible now,...
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this says that sandy did freeze the race. took the focus off. record polls. but nothing really changes. one-point move in wisconsin. i'm sure obama folks are happy it will go that way. but it doesn't mean anything. >> four states lean his direction for 231. it leaves romney with 180 in his column. 206. >> people watch the polls ever so slightly change. day-to-day. some of them go up six or seven points on the state. >> they look at the polls and say i don't get it. there is skepticism. state level polls sometimes you got fly-by-night operators and sometimes you got people like a des moines register poll they understand. we average these together. eight states with 101 electoral college votes too. close to call. we have six other states to that could show up in somebody else's column. >> this is the most polling we have seen in presidential election. this isn't even close. in the last week, we have twice as many national polls as eight years ago. last time, we run, depend ogen the week three or four times state level polls as we did eight years ago. >> the oth
this says that sandy did freeze the race. took the focus off. record polls. but nothing really changes. one-point move in wisconsin. i'm sure obama folks are happy it will go that way. but it doesn't mean anything. >> four states lean his direction for 231. it leaves romney with 180 in his column. 206. >> people watch the polls ever so slightly change. day-to-day. some of them go up six or seven points on the state. >> they look at the polls and say i don't get it. there is...
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people are helping victims of sandy in near record numbers. officials from the american red cross say this is the biggest outpouring of donations for any u.s. disaster in the last six years. that's this week's getting down to business. >>> it is time, now, for no talking points. the art of the political dodge, seems all politicians are skilled at it. with debate coaches, aides, analysts, speech writers, they should be. dodging that troubling question can be just as important as providing that game-changing, momentum-building moment. for example. there's a topic change. >> texas has one of the highest rates of uninsured children in the country. over 1 million kids, you did not get an opportunity to respond to that. what do you say to -- how do you explain that? >> you can't have access to some of the finest health care in the world. but we have a 1,200-mile border with mexico, and we have a huge number of illegals coming into this country. and they're coming into this country because the federal government has failed to secure that border. >> t
people are helping victims of sandy in near record numbers. officials from the american red cross say this is the biggest outpouring of donations for any u.s. disaster in the last six years. that's this week's getting down to business. >>> it is time, now, for no talking points. the art of the political dodge, seems all politicians are skilled at it. with debate coaches, aides, analysts, speech writers, they should be. dodging that troubling question can be just as important as...
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now i want to talk about the long lines in sandy's wake for gas. this is a huge financial story in the northeast. you have these lines still very long and despite all of the assurances of many, many politicians over the past few days this would be cleared up in a couple days, a few days, it has not been. the lines are still very long for gas. and patience is very short. you have police resources, law enforcement resources being diverted to keep order in these lines. and you have people very upset that because of power outage tez pumps, the pumps can't operate and disruptions from actual deliveries of oil. here's what's so interesting, sole dad, soledad. we have plenty of gasoline. it is in huge facilities below the ground. we just can't get to it. a couple things they're doing in new jersey. they have a system linking your license plate number to the day can you get gas. still lines are two, three, four hours long for gas. and the federal government is going to bring in 12 million gallons of unleaded gas to hard hit areas still trying to really --
now i want to talk about the long lines in sandy's wake for gas. this is a huge financial story in the northeast. you have these lines still very long and despite all of the assurances of many, many politicians over the past few days this would be cleared up in a couple days, a few days, it has not been. the lines are still very long for gas. and patience is very short. you have police resources, law enforcement resources being diverted to keep order in these lines. and you have people very...
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sandy was not classified as a hurricane when it hit. this allows governors to declare that homeowners are exempt from the insurance deductible saving as much as 5% of the homes values. it's not so great for businesses. businesses that help companies that lose revenue because of an unexpected shutdown, but it doesn't cover businesses that just lose power. the donation for relief efforts is rolling in. people are helping victims of sandy in near record numbers. that's this week's getting down to business. >>> it is time now for no talking points. the art of the political dodge, seems all politicians are skilled at it. with debate coaches, aids, analysts, speech writers, they should be. dodging that troubling question can be just as important as providing that game changing momentum building moment. for example. there's a topic change. >> texas has one of the highest rates of uninsured children in the country. over 1 million kids, you did not get an opportunity to respond to that. what do you say to -- how do you explain that? >> you can't
sandy was not classified as a hurricane when it hit. this allows governors to declare that homeowners are exempt from the insurance deductible saving as much as 5% of the homes values. it's not so great for businesses. businesses that help companies that lose revenue because of an unexpected shutdown, but it doesn't cover businesses that just lose power. the donation for relief efforts is rolling in. people are helping victims of sandy in near record numbers. that's this week's getting down to...
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a community rocked by hurricane sandy already. at this hour, luckily, no reports of any damage. >>> this video is truly inspirational. republican senator mark kirk from illinois making his first public appearance since having a stroke in january. he took part in the sky rise chicago climb. his goal? to climb 30 flights. instead, he climbed 37. >> great. a lot more steps than the 45 that my staff counted to the senate front door. [ laughter ] >> gretchen: also an inspiration, zach botcher, he became the first person ever to deplete the task with a bionic leg. congratulations. guys? >> steve: that is terrific. meanwhile, remember back in 2008 when then senator barak obama called president bush unpatriotic for increasing the national debt. >> the problem is that the way bush has done it over the last eight years is to take out a credit card from the bank of china in the name of our children. we now have over $9 trillion of debt that we are going to have to pay back. $30,000 for every man, woman and child. that's irresponsible! that's
a community rocked by hurricane sandy already. at this hour, luckily, no reports of any damage. >>> this video is truly inspirational. republican senator mark kirk from illinois making his first public appearance since having a stroke in january. he took part in the sky rise chicago climb. his goal? to climb 30 flights. instead, he climbed 37. >> great. a lot more steps than the 45 that my staff counted to the senate front door. [ laughter ] >> gretchen: also an...
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republicans are kind of angling to blame sandy and chris christie for mitt romney's loss. he has to reaffirm the republican base that he's with them. >> ari, when you look at the president's approval numbers on the storm, i believe it's 67% of the public according to our nbc news numbers, 67% approve, 16% disapprove. 17% not sure. it's not something that the republicans want, certainly sandy has done a good job of not only making the case are for government but showing that the president is capable of working across the aisle? >> yeah. i don't think that people really in ohio, for example, are going to change their mind over the last minute over this leadership, good as it is. but i do think to your point that what we see here is a freezing of the political facts that existed a week ago where mitt romney was gaining a little but no way in the lead. the new poll number out tonight still show this slight but real edge for the president. and not a big edge. but, again, mitt romney lost a week of politicking here and that is the biggest problem. if the republicans now as a pre
republicans are kind of angling to blame sandy and chris christie for mitt romney's loss. he has to reaffirm the republican base that he's with them. >> ari, when you look at the president's approval numbers on the storm, i believe it's 67% of the public according to our nbc news numbers, 67% approve, 16% disapprove. 17% not sure. it's not something that the republicans want, certainly sandy has done a good job of not only making the case are for government but showing that the president...
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could there be problems with where you described caused by hurricane sandy? guest: most of the places affected by hurricane sandy are not covered under the special provision. for example, new jersey is not. most of you -- of new york is not. three of the burrows are. in a situation like sandy, it is going to be understandable that if a polling place cannot open, then you have to come up with an alternative. absent there being a blatant discriminatory motive with regard to particular change, for example, if a polling place is moved from a school to an all- white club, that might raise some eyebrows. other than something like that happening, section 5 does not prevent places like new york from having the flexibility to gynnae the changes they need to make. -- to make the changes they need to make. host: here is a comment on twitter. guest: i'm not sure if they are going to go to texas or not. the some of the people i met with on saturday, for example, are going to philadelphia. host: pennsylvania, andrew, a republican. caller: here in pennsylvania, with the ide
could there be problems with where you described caused by hurricane sandy? guest: most of the places affected by hurricane sandy are not covered under the special provision. for example, new jersey is not. most of you -- of new york is not. three of the burrows are. in a situation like sandy, it is going to be understandable that if a polling place cannot open, then you have to come up with an alternative. absent there being a blatant discriminatory motive with regard to particular change, for...
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we were hit also by hurricane sandy. this panel was scheduled for last week and we've made a change so here we are. the one advantage of that is there is little time before the voting ends. the -- being able to make predictions and limit on an intervening in the event is not there. you are really on the line here. i thought dan with our to make the introductions. the longer version is in your packet. tom davis is a representative of northern virginia. and the head of the national republican campaign committee. martin frost represented texas and was a ranking member of the rules committee and chair of the democratic caucus and on the other side of the aisle, ran the democratic congressional campaign committee. both are experienced members but experience in running the national races for congress, for their respective parties. i am i to take a few minutes before we turn to -- going to take a few minutes before we turn and look at a report. it is about the redistricting or the change we have made in our district following t
we were hit also by hurricane sandy. this panel was scheduled for last week and we've made a change so here we are. the one advantage of that is there is little time before the voting ends. the -- being able to make predictions and limit on an intervening in the event is not there. you are really on the line here. i thought dan with our to make the introductions. the longer version is in your packet. tom davis is a representative of northern virginia. and the head of the national republican...
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last night more than 9,000 people affected by sandy were staying in 113 shelters. we have 60 trailers of supplies t things people will need to snart their recovery. we are getting out meals to those impacted in new jersey and new york. as we learn about specific neighbors in need, we're of course immediately mobile liesing resources. i mentioned we've got our entire fleet moving. we also have rental cars and trucks and any vehicle we can find. we've deployed our blood resources units vehicles to assist in food delivery. so you may see traditional buy med red cross vehicles distributing food. our partners at southern baptist convention have eight kitchens across knowledge knowledge. we're working here at our disaster operations center with meals on wheels association of america and feeding america. they are assisting here with making sure that their mobile feeding for the homebound, home delivery feeding is where it needs to be and that the local food banks can distribute food to those that may be homebound whether they can't get out of their home for one reason or
last night more than 9,000 people affected by sandy were staying in 113 shelters. we have 60 trailers of supplies t things people will need to snart their recovery. we are getting out meals to those impacted in new jersey and new york. as we learn about specific neighbors in need, we're of course immediately mobile liesing resources. i mentioned we've got our entire fleet moving. we also have rental cars and trucks and any vehicle we can find. we've deployed our blood resources units vehicles...
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. >> host: do you foresee a hearing on sandy and its effects? >> guest: i anticipate that -- i'm not sure if it would be necessarily at the federal level, but i know in terms of this -- i'm pretty confident that, and i was a state commissioner, that there will be some ais accessments minimally on a state-by-state level in terms of, again, looking at, um, what was done and looking at and evaluating and making pronouncements as to what we can do better. so there will be hearings, i'm not sure if it's going to escalate to the federal level. >> host: minion clyburn -- mignon clyburn and paul kirby, this is "the communicators" on c-span. >> tomorrow night watch the election results from the presidential campaign along with key contests in house, senate and governors' races on c-span. up next, a house debate with u.s. representative and former republican presidential candidate michele bachmann and her democratic challenger, jim graves to represent minnesota's 6th congressional district. then at 9 a.m. eastern we are live with an analysis of the compet
. >> host: do you foresee a hearing on sandy and its effects? >> guest: i anticipate that -- i'm not sure if it would be necessarily at the federal level, but i know in terms of this -- i'm pretty confident that, and i was a state commissioner, that there will be some ais accessments minimally on a state-by-state level in terms of, again, looking at, um, what was done and looking at and evaluating and making pronouncements as to what we can do better. so there will be hearings, i'm...